The Next Stage in

Metering
Delivering Smart
Value

Vineet Kumar
Crompton Greaves Ltd.
Bangalore
 Global Market Dimension

Total Installation 1.6 billion Meters worldwide

(Domestics & Industrial)

70% of Meters Installed are Electro mechanical &

21% are solid state 9% Grid & Feeder meter

Six Countries account for 59% of the world Meters

demand.

China, INDIA, Brazil, USA & Canada, Japan & Russia.

Most important markets are China (16 million units),

India (11 million) and Europe (8 million) per year.

The European market demands medium- to high-end

meters that include automated meter reading, LCD
displays, and multi-tariff billing, while the developing
like Asian regions mainly demand low-end meters
that only perform energy calculation.

Source: Metering International , Feb. 08

Smart & Intelligent Meter
Energy meters are to old-fashioned
what mobile phones are to old-
fashioned phones

Energy meters should be smart meters

and can be networked on future-proof
platform

Meters should not be just digital ver.

of electro-mechanical meters with
bolted-on communications

Meters provide additional services and

data
Meters are an integral part of smart
systems
Meters are designed to grow
 Strategic Themes of Metering
Automation

Plain Vanilla Main Street Brave New World

One Way Drive-By Advanced 2-Way, BPL, Advanced 2-Way
Communication PLC & Wireless Seamless Integration
Stand Alone System Separate but connected Across Systems
Inexpensive but Can be ramped and Expensive but with
dead-end for the future expanded over time
most options
 Self-Healing Technologies Will Change The Way
We Manage And Respond To Outages

Utility Service Territory

An All IP Network

Retail Applications Utility Applications

High speed data Intelligent grid
BPL, Fiber,
VoIP & VoD Homeland Security &
Wireless, etc.
Home energy Monitoring
Infrastructure
management Automatic meter reading
Home Security & Capacitor control
Networking Demand prediction
Smart appliance Distribution transformer
Smart Home Networks overload analysis
Video conferencing Proactive Customer
Notification

Connecting - Unconnected
 Improving Customer services
integrating with communication
Customer-driven operations model requires more efficient and wider use
of technology and telecommunications in customer service
Extending automation in customer interface creates new opportunities in
electricity networks use and management
Mobile workforce management and implementation of automatic
metering system are significant development for the customers

Electricity Customer Network

Operation Terminals Customer Contractor
Networks Service Center
 Example: Smart
Distribution System

Digital
Technologies

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Functionalities
Voltage control Business needs
Data Optimized load flow Improving reliability
Voltages Fault location Reduce costs
Load currents Equipment failure Energy efficiency
Fault currents detection Customer satisfaction
Temperature Power Quality
Operations evaluation
Monitoring
Broadband Over Powerline

Metro Fiber Ring

Architecture

Internet Data Video

 Compact Meter

Only one part

The installation is same with traditional meter

Smart Meters

Compact &
User friendly
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 Meter Consist of two parts

Monitor Unit
Metering Unit
Display/Operation
Metering/Controlling

Infrared
Communication
 Meter Display

Metrological
Parameters

Tamper
Indication
s Diagnostics Customized
icons
 Design Philosophy

Designed with high performance current transformers

Construction enables high quality & long life High

stability with mechanical stress and temperature
variation
Enhanced linearity in ratio & phase over a wide
range of operating conditions
Excellent magnetic properties including low losses
 What A Future-Proof System
Brings
Low cost metering services
On-demand and scheduled remote meter reads
Remotely manageable tariff tables and billing cycles
Multi-parameter load profiling

Distribution system optimization

Outage detection and isolation, restoration
verification
Per meter power quality information
Load balancing
Tamper and theft detection

Advanced control
Remote disconnect and reconnect
Maximum power limiting
Optional direct load control

New energy or value-added service with minimal

incremental investment
 Way Forward Smart Meters

Open systems A meter and communications platform that uses an

open system reference model. He needed any new technology to look &
feel and interoperate with his existing SCADA and OMS.
Future proofing Seamlessly add new, interoperable technologies. His
communications platform had to provide the necessary bandwidth to
handle new data feeds from new applications.
Under glass A meter that included its antennae inside the meter. This
was important because of a hot swap with one device when a meter
needed replacement.
One antenna Communicate to housing appliances and to the substation
with the same technology to lower the amount of internal hardware.
Control risk Avoid the "bleeding edge" with a communications platform
that is reliable and can be installed incrementally with off-the-shelf
equipment
 Philosophy

Smart meters provide both customers and their

providers a convenient single point of access to real-
time usage, price and alert information via on-premise
displays or on the World Wide Web using standards-
based APIs.

Customers can select their own Demand Response

program or rate schedule and receive automated
current, hour-ahead or day-ahead pricing signals.
Specific Demand Response requests can also be sent
to customers automatically, including curtailment
requests, critical peak pricing events and load control
in near real-time, significantly reducing operational
costs and complexity.
 Philosophy

License Free
Scalable
Speed
Data Security
Customized Capability
 Broadens the market and benefit of
Demand-Side Management.
Transmission is like the Internet of the
electric system.

Need to give customers the POWER to

make proactive,
Value-based decisions that have a
real, bottom-line impact on their
business

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 Thank you for your attention

Crompton Greaves Limited Vineet Kumar

Switchgear Complex- Crompton Greaves Limited
Nashik, Maharastra- India Bangalore- India
Time
Vineet.kumar@cgl.co.in